These are the oyster gardeners, a growing legion of volunteers who are raising these remarkable bivalves with a singular, ...

For many just a tasty delicacy, the oyster may actually be the hero the world needs to fight environmental degradation—and ...

A new suite of research has found efforts to restore oyster reefs on the U.S. East Coast has knock-on effects benefitting the ...

Eighteen tropical storms developed in the Atlantic basin during the official five-month season, including 11 hurricanes. Two ...

There are more than 1,700 points where sediment from dirt roads end up washing into local waterways. Officials want to craft a plan to fix them.

Anglers rely on NOAA data ... on NOAA’s research. “Fishermen are very reliant on NOAA for a lot of things,” said Eric Brazer, the deputy director of Gulf of America Reef Fish Shareholders ...

Bryce Coates, a USM Gulf Coast Research Summer Field Program student, holds a bag of oyster ... reefs where baby oysters can grow and continue to support other marine life, according to the NOAA.

NOAA is also involved in life and research on the Georgia coast in many other ways, including managing the Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary and the annual effort to track North Atlantic right ...

Colton Contreras, 11, of Fulton Elementary School, dumps oyster shells into a funnel leading to a cotton bag during a Sink Your Shucks event led by the Harte Research Institute at Goose Island ...

A new project has begun to map oyster reefs across tropical Australia. Since the project launched in June 2024, more than 60 new reefs have been found across Queensland, the Northern Territory and ...

NOAA ocean research laboratories and cooperative institutes would reportedly close if the budget is enacted, which will then affect the operations of the National Weather Service. In Tennessee ...

"NOAA's science is critical for restoring oyster reefs, managing commercially important ... to its mission of providing timely information, research, and resources that serve the American public ...